Dance Party Thursday May 26th @ 7pm Like music? Like to dance? Have some moves you like to show off? Celebrate the end of PARCC testing season and the beginning of Summer with a dance party at the library. We’ll have Spotify playlists, music videos, mood lighting, and more! No registration […]
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This week’s staff pick comes from the writer Jay Asher and it’s his debut young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why. Librarians from FTPL were lucky enough to hear him speak at this year’s New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference and he was fantastic! Funny, insightful and engaging, he made everyone […]
Have you kept yourself busy on these rainy days by spring cleaning and now have books to donate? We certainly appreciate your interest! Please bear in mind our guidelines for donation when you’re boxing them up. Books should be brought to the Circulation Desk during normal business hours. Out of […]
This week’s staff pick is the young adult fantasy novel Scorched by Mari Mancusi. Post-apocalyptic time travel, reminiscent of the Terminator movies, with dragons and a love triangle! Save the Dragon. Destroy the World. Trinity Foxx is used to her grandfather’s crazy stories, so she doesn’t believe the latest treasure […]
Friday, May 13th from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Community Room, join us for Concussion. Will Smith stars in a thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, and the uphill battle he faced to make public his conclusions about concussions in American […]
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, here is a list of books in which characters either have a mental illness or have a relationship (family, friend, romantic, etc.) with someone with a mental illness. And here’s some statistics that explain why reading about mental illness in order to better […]
Mental Health Month Panel Thursday May 12th @ 6pm Teens and their families are invited to a panel and Q&A session on mental health topics concerning adolescents. Several experts from the area will be here to provide information about the mental health services they provide as well as answer questions […]
If you’re working on the 2016 Read Harder Challenge this week’s staff pick is perfect for number 12- Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender. George by Alex Gino is the story of 4th grader George, who knows she’s a girl despite the fact that […]
Happy Free Comic Book Day! Visit your local comic shop for free comics or come to the library where you can get free comics every day! In honor of free comic book day, I wanted to share a list of 13 Great Webcomics for Kids and Teens compiled by School […]
Check out the latest gallery book display Books in Bloom: Choose from Our Garden of Genres covering tons of great genre reads. Whether you like mystery, fantasy, or romance there’s a little something for everyone. Always been interested in trying a new genre but don’t know where to start? Here are […]